Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Onassis was once more the focus of international speculation. Amid reports that he was gravely ill-perhaps even near death-he was flown from Athens to Paris aboard an Olympic Airways Learjet specially outfitted with medical equipment. After resting for a night at his Avenue Foch apartment near the Arc de Triomphe, Onassis checked into the American Hospital in suburban Neuilly, managing to slip unobserved through the hospital's rear door. The crowd of reporters and photographers waiting at the hospital's main entrance apparently were deliberately distracted by the arrival of an ashen-faced and obviously distraught...
...original legend of Joan of Arc was all ethereal voices and uprolled eyes. George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan suffered from an opposite flaw: a 15th century French farm girl with 19th century English socialist leanings, she seemed all pragmatism and muddy boots...
...staccato muddle of the shallowly portentous ("What is your outlook on the state of the world, Roy?" asked former New York Mayor John Lindsay, now a guest commentator on the show, of British Home Secretary Roy Jenkins) and the trivial (last Monday was Joan of Arc's birthday). Jazzy film montages flick past to numbingly appropriate pop music (example: shots of gold bars set to the strains of Donovan's Mellow Yellow). The only relief is the show's solidly professional, twice-hourly newscast anchored by Peter Jennings, 36, former ABC network-news anchor man and most...
Good Time Charley. I suppose it was only a matter of time. The idea was obvious, the time so ripe, that my only question is, "what took so long?" A musical about Joan of Arc. It only took the Church 500 years to canonize her. Better late than never, is one tempted to explain? It won't do. Reports have it that this charcoal-broiled musical may be the worst even Boston has seen in recent years. What can you sing about a 21 year-old peasant girl who died? Joel Grey, fresh from a White House appearance doing...
...Mother, by Bertold Brecht, someone who really knew how to handle Joan of Arc on stage. At the Charles St. Meeting House...